Author Topic: Wank Dad 2: Electric Wankaloo (Read 617118 times)

curly · « **Reply #5400 on:** July 24, 2020, 07:00:14 PM »

Quote from: shosta on July 24, 2020, 06:55:18 PM

Quote from: Mandark on July 24, 2020, 06:47:56 PM
Right, Marx isn't even a footnote.

My experience with undergrad econ was that whatever the class is, 80% of it is just solving optimization equations. Basically no history of econ, and a lot of ideology passed off as math (which good teachers will point out, but still).
- finding out John Hicks wrote Keynes and the Classics before reading the General Theory
- finding out Hicks eventually said IS-LM was just an academic toy and worthless for understanding short term dynamics related to liquidity and interest
- finding out that measuring the contributions of "factors of production" is tautological and Samuelson didn't think it was worth doing
- finding out Solow said that DSGM models have never produced a useful result
- finding out that Oskar Lange won the socialist calculation debate by pointing out pricing is algorithmic

a completely degenerate discipline

think how much better off you would be if you had spent the time you wasted reading that shite doing something worthwhile like watching Naruto

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #5401 on:** July 24, 2020, 07:03:37 PM »

Quote from: shosta on July 24, 2020, 06:49:24 PM

Quote from: Transhuman on July 24, 2020, 06:43:52 PM
Yeah i'm not saying it's brainwashing, Rubin is a moron, but it's still a dumb idea to jam dumb prerequisites, especially non-applicable ones. It'd be a different matter if it was just for the students doing humanities degrees.
the point of general education is to produce well rounded members of society

Mandark · « **Reply #5402 on:** July 24, 2020, 07:04:17 PM »

IME it was striking how the intro classes for sociology, psychology, and poli sci all involved sketching out different approaches to those subjects and some historical background of the disciplines, whereas intro to econ is basically "here's how we model behavior in econ, and here's how you express that as a graph."

I think a lot of how econ's taught can be chalked up to a desire to be treated like a STEM discipline and not lumped in with the other "soft" sciences.

curly · « **Reply #5403 on:** July 24, 2020, 07:06:46 PM »

the point of general education is to teach you how to think not to impart some specific information on a subject so you don't end up like transhuman who appears to have no worthwhile thoughts on any subject

shosta · « **Reply #5404 on:** July 24, 2020, 07:06:49 PM »

Steve Keen is a crank but I found Debunking Economics to be a good palette cleanser. Then I just started reading the original papers for myself. Dumb hobby though curly is right I should have just watched Naruto

Mandark · « **Reply #5405 on:** July 24, 2020, 07:11:43 PM »

When you consider how far shosta has come in the last couple years, the key to growing as a young person is being ~~bullied~~ regularly presented with direct, honest feedback online.

shosta · « **Reply #5406 on:** July 24, 2020, 07:13:48 PM »

I was already on the upswing from rock bottom. Like the Earth's temperature, you can't prove that you're the one responsible

Mandark · « **Reply #5407 on:** July 24, 2020, 07:17:56 PM »

Quote from: Mandark on May 23, 2020, 12:13:34 AM

shosta getting my feedback for his posts is like training in triple gravity

when he's editing current affairs his power level will be off the charts

that first wank dad thread was like an 80's training montage for your brain

VomKriege · « **Reply #5408 on:** July 24, 2020, 07:18:43 PM »

https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/1286756865469288450

Is it an emergency broadcast from your hunting lodge or something ?

Also

you accused Obama of being a radical Soros puppet working to brew a leftist insurrection in the US breh. You're still saying they're DISMANTLING THE ~~WHITES~~ WEST.

https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/1286764677440118785

https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/1286088640008003591

https://www.mediamatters.org/glenn-beck/beck-connects-obama-soros-violent-revolution-coming-our-shores

shosta · « **Reply #5409 on:** July 24, 2020, 07:20:23 PM »

Quote from: Mandark on July 24, 2020, 07:17:56 PM

that first wank dad thread was like an 80's training montage for your brain

the principal reason I'm back in school is so you'll stop calling me autodidactic as a subtle insult

Mandark · « **Reply #5410 on:** July 24, 2020, 07:20:40 PM »

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #5411 on:** July 24, 2020, 07:21:02 PM »

Quote from: Mandark on July 24, 2020, 07:20:40 PM

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Guess he wasn't all that sorry after all!

D3RANG3D · « **Reply #5412 on:** July 24, 2020, 07:24:02 PM »

VomKriege · « **Reply #5413 on:** July 24, 2020, 07:24:21 PM »

https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/1285708252106416134

Concern trolling ?
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VomKriege · « **Reply #5414 on:** July 24, 2020, 07:30:22 PM »

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1286711421116416000

Do "Make America Great Again" next !

Oblivion · « **Reply #5415 on:** July 24, 2020, 07:33:38 PM »

never EVER forget:

Oblivion · « **Reply #5416 on:** July 24, 2020, 07:55:38 PM »

oh and if anyone wants a point by point summary of the taibbi/chapo episode, this dude has it:

https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1286506318321332224

part 2:

https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1286672104398770178

(god bless his soul

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Kara · « **Reply #5417 on:** July 24, 2020, 08:03:13 PM »

My favorite part of that episode was when Matty said that the dang news used to be about reporting what the dang news knew and letting the public decide what to do with it. If there's a hereafter I hope William Randolph Hearst had a good belly laugh at that.

Mandark · « **Reply #5418 on:** July 24, 2020, 08:04:27 PM »

Matt Taibbi, famous for maintaining a stringently objective tone in his work.

Tripon · « **Reply #5419 on:** July 24, 2020, 08:34:12 PM »

I started listening to Chapo mid 2018. Was their early run also just straight up grillism like it is now?

Oblivion · « **Reply #5420 on:** July 24, 2020, 09:03:53 PM »

CTH is normally pretty good for the most part (minus the girl chapo, who is almost always awful), which is why the taibbi episode got the reaction it did. cause it's normally out of character for the show.

team filler · « **Reply #5421 on:** July 24, 2020, 09:05:40 PM »

https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/1286787059026292736

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #5422 on:** July 24, 2020, 09:14:55 PM »

Quote from: Kara on July 24, 2020, 08:03:13 PM

My favorite part of that episode was when Matty said that the dang news used to be about reporting what the dang news knew and letting the public decide what to do with it. If there's a hereafter I hope William Randolph Hearst had a good belly laugh at that.

*laughs in yellow journalism*

benjipwns · « **Reply #5423 on:** July 24, 2020, 10:18:23 PM »

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Noah Berlatsky
330.8K Tweets

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he/him, bylines NBC Think, Atlantic, WaPo, Pitchfork, Guardian, Foreign Policy

no thx

Kara · « **Reply #5424 on:** July 24, 2020, 11:41:51 PM »

Quote from: Tripon on July 24, 2020, 08:34:12 PM

I started listening to Chapo mid 2018. Was their early run also just straight up grillism like it is now?

Nah, they got bodied pretty hard by the defeat of reluctant social fascism by a clearly unwell segregationist who is running back the Democratic Party's 2018 Leon Blum campaign while the planet circles the drain.

Transhuman · « **Reply #5425 on:** July 25, 2020, 12:08:41 AM »

https://mobile.twitter.com/nberlat/status/1286517612701261833

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Noah Berlatsky edits the online comics-and-culture website The Hooded Utilitarian and is the author of the book Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-48.

Oblivion · « **Reply #5426 on:** July 25, 2020, 07:28:08 PM »

https://twitter.com/thetomzone/status/1287094940850442241

team filler · « **Reply #5427 on:** July 26, 2020, 02:26:04 AM »

https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1287247395286376448

VomKriege · « **Reply #5428 on:** July 26, 2020, 03:54:17 PM »

https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1287077673076957184

VomKriege · « **Reply #5429 on:** July 26, 2020, 06:45:55 PM »

https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1287448751628529664

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #5430 on:** July 26, 2020, 06:48:43 PM »

Tripon · « **Reply #5431 on:** July 26, 2020, 07:35:55 PM »

https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1287526507267665921

He mad

VomKriege · « **Reply #5432 on:** July 27, 2020, 02:48:41 AM »

https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1287399757367767042

Thanks Dave.

BIONIC · « **Reply #5433 on:** July 27, 2020, 02:58:57 AM »

benjipwns · « **Reply #5434 on:** July 27, 2020, 03:13:25 AM »

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/jul/26/bill-by-cotton-targets-curriculum-on-slavery/

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If the Saving American History Act of 2020 becomes law, however, school districts using the 1619 Project curriculum could face financial consequences.

Cotton’s legislation labels the project “a distortion of American history.”

“The 1619 Project is left-wing propaganda. It’s revisionist history at its worst,” he said in an interview Friday.

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If Cotton’s legislation passes, school districts that embrace the curriculum would no longer qualify for federal professional development funds, money that is intended to improve teacher quality.

Federal funding would also be lowered slightly to reflect any “cost associated with teaching the 1619 Project, including in planning time and teaching time.”

Funds tied to low-income or special-needs students would not be affected.

The secretaries of Education, Agriculture and Health and Human Services would create “prorated formulas” to determine the size of the reduction in federal money for schools adopting the curriculum.

“It won’t be much money,” Cotton said. “But even a penny is too much to go to the 1619 Project in our public schools. The New York Times should not be teaching American history to our kids.”

Capitol Hill isn’t the place where curriculum decisions are typically made, Cotton acknowledged.

If educators want to use the materials, they’ll still be free to do so, he said.

“Curriculum is a matter for local decisions and if local left-wing school boards want to fill their children’s heads with anti-American rot, that’s their regrettable choice. But they ought not to benefit from federal tax dollars to teach America’s children to hate America,” he said.

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https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1287489209469734915

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Kara · « **Reply #5435 on:** July 27, 2020, 03:24:10 AM »

Can't wait for that guy to take a consulting job or get primaried by some psycho running to his right Tea Party stylee.

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The Democratic Party isn't even running a ringer against him this fall.

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VomKriege · « **Reply #5436 on:** July 27, 2020, 10:36:40 AM »

https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1287743905119834114

POLL CHILDREN YOU COWARDS

shosta · « **Reply #5437 on:** July 27, 2020, 04:34:49 PM »

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1287824348460593154

shosta · « **Reply #5438 on:** July 27, 2020, 04:38:08 PM »

Quote from: VomKriege on July 27, 2020, 10:36:40 AM

POLL CHILDREN YOU COWARDS

what's the deail with this guy... how does one man succeed in being so dumb

team filler · « **Reply #5439 on:** July 27, 2020, 04:44:17 PM »

POLE YOUR CHILDREN AND KILL THEM!

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #5440 on:** July 27, 2020, 04:45:22 PM »

Quote from: shosta on July 27, 2020, 04:34:49 PM

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1287824348460593154

Remember when people thought Elon Musk was gonna save the world?

Tripon · « **Reply #5441 on:** July 27, 2020, 06:45:30 PM »

https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1287856764692713477

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #5442 on:** July 27, 2020, 06:52:11 PM »

Quote from: Tripon on July 27, 2020, 06:45:30 PM

https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1287856764692713477

Oblivion · « **Reply #5443 on:** July 27, 2020, 08:47:09 PM »

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1287824348460593154
https://twitter.com/IanwalshDesign/status/1287853917645213696

EchoRin · « **Reply #5444 on:** July 28, 2020, 12:54:19 AM »

This is the perfect image. Masterpiece of shit.

Oblivion · « **Reply #5445 on:** July 28, 2020, 01:07:38 AM »

https://twitter.com/fordm/status/1287792759986950148

look at that snowflake

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #5446 on:** July 28, 2020, 01:18:54 AM »

just 3d chess you brainlets

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1287945968743321600

benjipwns · « **Reply #5447 on:** July 28, 2020, 01:24:08 AM »

https://www.dontdoxscottalexander.com/

time to doxxx all these people

Nintex · « **Reply #5448 on:** July 28, 2020, 04:30:52 AM »

VomKriege · « **Reply #5449 on:** July 28, 2020, 04:50:02 AM »

You know Musk was a stunted teen for not getting those big brain takes out of his system earlier.

To even entertain the idea it's 3D chess is buffoonish. Weird trolls perhaps at best... But he named his child like a prepackaged Gamer PC Setup, it's probably all earnest.

VomKriege · « **Reply #5450 on:** July 28, 2020, 05:00:11 AM »

Quote from: shosta on July 27, 2020, 04:38:08 PM

Quote from: VomKriege on July 27, 2020, 10:36:40 AM
POLL CHILDREN YOU COWARDS
what's the deail with this guy... how does one man succeed in being so dumb

"Uncut Trump : This is how I win".

https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1288010297844944896

VomKriege · « **Reply #5451 on:** July 28, 2020, 06:33:30 AM »

https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1287914455200698368

https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1287832326282461184

Mandark · « **Reply #5452 on:** July 28, 2020, 09:07:10 AM »

Quote from: VomKriege on July 28, 2020, 04:50:02 AM

You know Musk was a stunted teen for not getting those big brain takes out of his system earlier.

To even entertain the idea it's 3D chess is buffoonish. Weird trolls perhaps at best... But he named his child like a prepackaged Gamer PC Setup, it's probably all earnest.

the tweet in question's obv facetious